skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A recent series of posts on a historian's blog[1], stressed that subsistence farmers farmed as little as they could get away with (i.e. enough to feed the family), while the ruling class tried to get them to farm as much as possible (to increase the tax base).

1: https://acoup.blog/
The phrase American defense lawyers use is “the process is the punishment.” Even if a higher tier eventually exonerates the wrongly accused, they’ve already been dragged through years of stress, had their reputation ruined, and probably have gone bankrupt.

Unfortunately the higher levels allow those currently invested in the system as is to say “see, they were exonerated” and ignore the massive amount of purposeful damage done in the process.
> This is no way market driven demand

Serious question & not meant to be snarky: does any of this really matter when thinking about the future of electric vehicles?
They also actively build their phones to be purposefully hard to repair and have stood against many of the "right to repair" laws that have been introduced that would extend the life of their phones.

This behavior would seem to contradict your statement.
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The leader of an organization that has a large impact on society, and potentially will have a very large impact on society and the world, being secretive is concerning and suspicious, yes.

Edit: Why? Because the public should know the people who have significant amount of influence in society.
Hahaha.. Force the hand of those who feed and we'll force the hand of the fed.

The West has blocked Huawei from being used now they force the populis to demand open networks.
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Projects like these are neat, but I don't understand where the money for them comes from. At least electric cars had a use case that was achievable from the start (driving around locally) and are now usable for pretty much any kind of driving people want to do (maybe cross-country road trips are still challenging).

But these electric planes are just clearly worse than conventional planes. The batteries take up a lot of weight and weigh the same at the start of the flight as at the end, and while I'm sure battery technology will continue to improve, the weight issue is going to be a problem for a long time. Trying to pursue this commercially just seems like a quick way to lose a lot of money.

Edit: I'm not saying it won't work, just that it will be significantly more expensive than a conventional plane for the same performance for a long time to come.
> This would only function as a nuisance for the responsible drinkers.

How so? Keeping a card is not much of a nuisance...

> It's very easy to make alcohol at home.

Sure and it's easy to find someone else that can get you some, we all know people underage that had no trouble getting alcohol. It's harder though to get though, and let say it's 10% harder, then you just may have saved 10% of the case, much better than doing nothing.
I think these are a user disaster because they are training people to click "OK" on a pop up. Which will turn out to be very bad from a security perspective.
That works on both sides of the equation, as someone who lived both in NA and Morocco. There's similar levels of unreported crime.
Yea. That is the sad truth. I used to be a hard core YIMBY believer and advocated for more urban densification and taller buildings etc. etc.

Then one day I found out that the city was planning on building new student housing on the park where my daughter and I went to play every day. All of a sudden I found my unbridled YIMBYism becoming a lot more circumspect and nuanced and it turns out I was actually just a massive hypocrite. Urban densification is Great! and I still believe it is the right solution (just not in _my_ back yard).

PS: Now that I've moved 2 miles down the road and no longer go to that particular park I'm far more open to the long term benefits of it being used for student housing.
There is a huge moral issue here. You have a company that is manipulating the market like crazy convincing people to put more and more of their savings in crypto, all of it to be taken away.

This asymmetry in information alone should be reason to have them eliminated from the market as soon as possible.
"wearing a mask during a deadly pandemic" is a really simple thing to do to demonstrate willingness to sign on to a social compact. Fortunately, almost everyone I see in my neighborhood does. I generally feel positively towards my actual neighbors. But based on conversations with friends elsewhere, this is not universally true.

I don't know if I could ever move to an area that didn't have high mask compliance during all this.

It's like living with someone who doesn't think playing with matches is a stupid risk to take. One day the house might burn down. It would be safer to live alone, or with people with similar attitudes to not playing with fire.
(1950).

Interesting to compare this with a 2017 equivalent [0] which contains a lot more actionable guidance (written in PowerPoint).

A lot of this is relevant in commercial writing, e.g. the use of active voice - which tends to make it clear who has responsibility for things. Important in contracts, etc.

[0] https://www.jmu.edu/uwc/tutor-resources/MSL202L15%20Writing%...
They can use "headers include random things" as a filter like they do with other headers presence/absence/value already. I don't think defining "random things" would be too hard for them.
No, "social distancing and travel restrictions" are also quite harmful.
> which may eventually led China to be an important player in the next decade.

Seems highly unlikely. Today's TSMC is even harder to compete with than yesterday's Intel/Qualcomm or even long ago's IBM.
C++ could probably be more regulated for certain scenarios

At that point, a different language might be better anyway.

My experiences with C++ (I dust it off every year because of something that needs doing that nobody else wants to touch) are that I've usually dipped into C++ specifically for some combination of:

1. Invoking API's that have been around for a long time, usually meaning OS API's

2. Hand-optimized performance sensitive code where, for example, you're auditing every runtime memory allocation that has to be done in the inner loops

3. Modifying legacy code that's written in C++

In all of those cases you have to dip into unsafe territory regularly, so you end up with pretty much what Rust does with safe/unsafe, but with less in the way of the language helping you to ferret out your memory handling bugs. Every time I do it, even if I don't think I've created memory handling bugs, and even when my tools don't catch anything, I always leave with a low grade fear that my code will end up in a CVE somewhere.
Not in the sense of that blogpost. They say about SAAS:

> Problem: The service provider will lock you in. No full control over your content.

this is clearly does not apply to basic hosting plans. You have full control, an there is no lock-in at all -- all of those hosting plans are basically equivalent.
Isn’t broken trust due to low quality Chinese steel and Chinese counterfeits eroding the international order?

Those seem like a weird example to hold up as a success — that high trust spot checking system is failing in the face of trying to integrate with a low trust actor and is tearing down international trade with it.
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Are these the same left that cheered as Facebook took down accounts/pages of those on the right? What comes around goes around.
Ugh, reporting like this rubs me the wrong way.

> doomed Touch Bar

There was one person who posted on Twitter speculating that the Touch Bar will be removed in a few upcoming models and the Verge takes it and runs with it.
This discussion comes up a lot, with people gleefully deciding that they derive the absolute truth from the data and that all wine is just bullshit bingo.

Aquired sophiscated tastes come with experience and social coaching. Sugar tastes "good" to everyone for fairly well established biological reasons, but when someone has been educated on the identification of finer tastes and to enjoy them- they will reject sugary food for something more nuanced and varied. Some people never recieve this education, which leads to 40 year olds drinking sodas.

In the same sense, many people never get the introduction to the finer points of a good glass of wine, and thus stick to simpler tastes. Wine pricing, particularly among the highly competitive world of home retail wine selections (how much will someone part with for a "nice bottle of evening wine") where most sell at say, $10 but the best price to performance is around the $22 mark. With particularly nuanced and hard to produce wine tastes ganering the high costs. Not literal comparative "good taste"
That is a great question and no, mixing in noise makes it harder but doesn't make it impossible.

Mixing in noise feels like a solution because it is hard for a layperson to see how a signal can be extracted, proof by "difficulty to me". If you mix in noise that changes averages then you are removing signal. If you add in random noise, each individual measurement deviates, but the limit of the average will be the same value pre-mixing.
> [...] for failing to predict a deadly earthquake

That's not what they were accused for. After a earthquake swarm that scared the people, the head of the national service for civil protection asked them to reassure the population, and they obeyed, publishing a statement that said that everything was OK and there was nothing to worry about.

After the definitive absolution, some of them kept saying that they were tried for being scientists, but the truth is that they were tried for NOT being scientists: saying what politicians ask you to say is very far from being a scientist.
This sounds like the spaceship problem. Whenever you build a spaceship to take people to another planet, it will be passed by a later ship which was built to go faster.
They tend to fail. Turns out humans don't like being pressed into a fixed life. These communities usually die with demography changes. Most of the past's projects like this, are now desolate and unattractive. Ultimately, it's always down to someone having totalitarian lust building these, but not anticipating changing demographics and lifestyles.

In Berlin the <~1920 buildings seem to be the sweet spot for city development. Over the course of a century, they managed to adapt perfectly to a changing city. The living spaces can house a family, luxury minded singles, shared flat collectives, a doctor's office, ... . In the basement you get shops, bureaus, or cheap apartments. Historically, there were livestock living down there sometimes. Berlin once had about a million more citizens living in these buildings. The complexes span economic classes and mix realities, de-ghettofy. And people actually love living in these old buildings still today.

They are not the most energy efficient for the high ceilings (huge on living quality and versatility, tho), but the thick walls prove to be not bad at all for isolation. Same for the old windows (Kastenfenster).
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
What percentage? Who gets to decide who gets to opt out of working for a living? Who grants the final approval?!
It's not so much that it is more aligned with profitability per se, but the fact that each modification you put in the part of the device controlling the radio also needs said approval before being used to transmit - and FCC has been tightening the enforcement of that. It has been on HN before [0]...

Usual caveats about Part 15 vs Part 97 use apply.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11267443
Could you explain what you mean in more concrete terms? In what way does Rust restrict the programmer so much that it's comparable to the difference between an FB page and a site-building system?
Thanks! Since my site is static, though, there's no built-in search feature.
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The breach itself was announced shortly after it was discovered: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/16/security-update/

And affected users were notified once identified, which was shortly after the announcement: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/17/update-to-security-inc...

This is an update with more details, which was held back for legal reasons.
Built to be OSS from first commit.
Covid-19 warnings were on Twitter long before the outbreak of the pandemic
A Home Security Worker Hacked into Surveillance Systems to Watch People Have Sex
I can't tell for sure, but it sounds like it puts an abstraction in front of the CDN (via the WYSIWYG editor), such that moving to a new one wouldn't be hard. It mentions Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, Netlify, and Vercel as backends.
I guess it means less work for lawyers. The sarcastic reply is that lawyers don't need more money. The more serious reply is that the work a lawyer does doesn't increase the "value output" (I don't know the formal term) the same way that an engineer or researcher or teacher does. A lawyer, like an economist, helps grease the transactions of a society, but if society is already greased, the lawyer could be doing something directly "useful".
Sure, but if you're a power user with deep pockets, you may still be interested. But you'll want to know whether you can something tangible out of it on your workstation, and it's not exclusively a multitenant cloud database optimizer (or worse, a regression for typical workstation workload performance).

So, the Windows boot speed comparison provides an indication that it'll give some benefit to personal workstations too. Whether it's worth it or not is another question entirely.
If you do not need to do similarity searches, indexing over the (fixed size and numeric, possibly cryptographic) hash of the string might work.

edit: but that will map to an uniform range, making interpolation trivial. As this solution can be used for any type, I'm probably missing something. The index discussed in the paper can probably be used for range queries (which hashing would prevent), not just punctual searches.

edit: bah, I'm just reinventing an hash map.
Right, you can't directly measure productivity in many jobs, so proxies for productivity are used, and in low trust environments, those proxies are the sole source of truth, which makes gaming them more important than actually being productive.
This scares me a bit.

Let's say you have certain nero indicators which indicate person X may do Y .

Do you we then minority report lock up people.

At the same time , it's going to be amazing for people in a coma or unable to communicate. We could have a fantastic amazing world, where we effectively live forever via some type of matrix like interface.
It is. And sometimes it isn't. Different people and fields use different definitions. I was referring to the Peano axioms, there zero is considered a natural number. On the other hand I referred to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, there it is more convenient to exclude zero so that one can say that every natural number has a unique factorization into primes. And this is perfectly fine, mathematicians can cope with the fact that there are two different sets that different people call the natural numbers.
That's an issue yes. I wanted to write a tool to create snapshots of all links (that aren't found on archive.org).

Together with https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker that lets you see what links are broken so they can be replaced. I think you can keep the wiki quite up to date and not lose things.
> This amoral, economistic view of human life is what got us into this mess in the first place.

Which mess are you referring to?
The comment about the mouse was odd. While mice were somewhat rare on the 8-bit II line, the IIgs was very mouse centric, and in the late 1980+s there were plenty of mice that worked on II+/e/c via 9pin RS232. There was even the Apple Desktop, a look alike of the mac/IIGs finder ported to the IIe/c.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcQ_X-aGAk
The fact that some of the crap spouts are slower doesn't mean the pool isn't filling.

You can think of it like this: There is an very large pool about 2/3 full of human crap, being filled by a number of spouts. Some of the spouts kinda stop ocasionally, but not for long.

There is a sinkhole, but it's not big enough, so it keeps filling.

When it fills up, you and everyone you love included, along with all of humanity, will have to drink from that pool forever as their sole form of sustenance, possibly dying of it. It's taking the plants and kelp with it, too, so eventually there will be nothing we can recognize as good.

The only way out is to make the sinkhole bigger or close every spout and try to make it _very_ clear what happened so future generations don't mess with it. Every other path leads to everyone and everything dying a horrible death.
I'm fairly certain L5 automation won't need anywhere near the processing capacity of the visual cortex.
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Checkout https://github.com/mre/tinysearch
Yep I often use "ten minute mail" for this too.
Do we really need control over the radio hardware? Or can we treat them as dumb pipes, and use something like Tor to shield us from whoever can track who is using a radio channel?
I give you a 0.9 sitkack score (quite good actually) for the honest response. :)
> Even if we’re not engaged with other people on a social or civic level, we still have to transact with them on an economic one. We still have to walk along the same streets, send our children to the same schools, and spend afternoons in the same parks.

No we don't. Kids are driven everywhere, meaning that there is a (locked) door between them and The Others, the richer the neighborhood the richer the schools and the less you have to put them together with poor kids.

With distance learning you don't even have to worry about the other kids in the class, or the commute.
I sincerely hope that whatever happens with these lawsuits doesn't chill the speech of actual voting machine security research.
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Ask HN: How do you find a business idea and motivation to leave the 9-5 grind
I often read here of some success stories about people making thousands off of their business idea (usually people who never even got into the 9-5 grind in the first place).

99% of the projects I see of these successful people are things that I would personally never pay for and are some very specific things that I would think already have a solution and I'm genuinely surprised that anyone is paying for. Basically they boil down to a web app offering subscription service to make some menial task slightly more comfortable.

1. How did you come up with this idea? Is it something you actually care about or found out it would make cash? Personally if I am to make something similar it rather be about something I care about and would use, sadly I don't care about many things.

2. How do you actually find the time/motivation to start some side hustle when you spend 8+ hours in work (even if it's from home). Last thing I feel like doing after work is more work.
Currently I'm the only one working on the project. I know there are probably a lot of potential applications for the language, but I still haven't written a specification and neither a parser nor interpreter that works.

My plan so far is to make it embeddable with a voice recording demo, so that it can be used inside a Web Browser with their respective voice recognition APIs.

The idea behind the language is that it will also embed native data types and tries to make the grammar as predictable as possible, so that the recognition can get more failsafe.
I think this is the definition of corruption in any other country other than the USA. Your definition is called oligarchy. It has nothing to do with free markets. It is quite the opposite, how to limit free markets.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

"Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few', and ἄρχω (arkho) 'to rule or to command')[1][2][3] is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
Toronto? Weird.
Most of the gas pumps with ads I’ve seen are the kind with 4 arrow buttons on either side. If you push the 2nd button down on the right side, it’ll mute the audio, and you can go back to listening to traffic and breathing fumes in peace.

https://imgur.com/a/D7ZIR
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I’d be much more worried about the absolutely insane nonsense that Giuliani and his ilk have been spewing. That is far more damaging to voting machine research than this lawsuit.
Agreed. Sites will just say, "relay.firefox.com" email address are not allowed. By definition they know it's not your real email address
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Claiming an argument is disingenuous because you don't like it is an extremely cheap retort. They clearly were sincere in their statement, and given that the 6S was released in 2015, everyone who bought one at a later date knew that it was an older device, and it's still supported and will continue to be supported.

Another way to put it is that no one does better than Apple at keeping their devices useful and valuable (easily demonstrated in resale values). Maybe Apple could do even better, but it's in a market where it is far and away the standout.

As an aside, people say "well look I can put some completely unsupported, random ROM on my old device!" is not a counterpoint. iPhones and iPads continue on as our kid's devices, resolve for a handsome resale price, etc. Competitor devices collect dust in a drawer. This is empirical truth.
The best use case I have heard is flight schools. Last time I quoted lessons, half the cost was the fuel.
Why Responsive Webpage? What's the best tool?
Any of those standing on my bookshelf I want to read next, especially the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs".

What about my reading frequency, nowadays I read more of whitepapers and less of books, because whitepapers are way harder to read than books. Every day I read at least half of A4 page of whitepapers or at least 10 of A4 page of books or blogposts. It is just a hobby for me, not kind of job.
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shared values is an important part of trust though. suppose I'm an executive and I'm trying to hire a more diverse group of employees. one of my hiring managers says they're happy to apply whatever criteria I ask for, but they fundamentally don't believe diversity is important. I'm going to have a hard time trusting this person to do what I want.
Providing affordabke reliable service is bad for business?
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I actually used this as inspiration for a little self-challenge to write a programming language in 24hrs not too long ago [1]. I didn't get quite as far as I'd've liked to, but nonetheless if you have some time to kill, it was an extremely fun task to tackle.

[1] https://github.com/block8437/afternoon-lang